Month: September 2009

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is a joint venture between Gallup and the health management company Healthways. The Index is designed to measure the overall well-being of the United States and its various regions by randomly administering a comprehensive survey measuring the overall mental, physical and emotional health of individuals across the country (Hawaii and Utah top the[…]

Often when working with clients to design and deliver leadership training, I’m told to create an experience where participants have fun, are fully engaged in the program and learn new skills. Recently, I partnered with a client, a major U.S.-based insurance company, that decided to raise the bar and set the expectation that learners would also apply what they[…]

One of the great business challenges of the 21st century will be building the capacity of large, complex organizations to change and evolve continuously in order to deliver ever-increasing value to customers. In the world of leadership development, we often think of this pursuit through the narrow lens of developing individual leadership skills and competencies[…]

One of the long-standing assumptions about leadership in today’s wired and global economy is the critical importance of multitasking. With information coming at us through email, RSS, Twitter, smart phones and the like, the ability to perform multiple actions at once, quickly prioritizing tasks and making decisions, would seem to be an important contributor to leadership success. […]